Poly Fantasy Golf 2013

[Skyfish]

Wow losing that first place on the last week would be just cruel...

[snoopy369]

You mean like both of my As missing the cut?

[-Jrabbit]

Wow losing that first place on the last week would be just cruel...

Ask and ye shall receive... Congrats to Tonybogey on winning the Winter Segment.

Now... on to the real golf season.

[Skyfish]

[rah]

The old man pulls it out again. Congrats.

[Demonbinder]

CRAP!!! Bad start to spring as I forgot to change lineup from last week and have only one "B" player today and a B and C for tomorrow.

[SlowwHand]

I saw. WTG. Maybe with you around, I won't finish last.

[-Jrabbit]

My web was down when I crashed last night, so I ended up with whatever group I penciled in on Tuesday.
Could be worse. At least they're all in the field.

[rah]

Another good reason why I too pencil in a group early in the week and change it later. At least you usually have someone in if you forget or have issues. At my age the memory side is the more unreliable part

[snoopy369]

I saw. WTG. Maybe with you around, I won't finish last.

No, that's what I'm here for. (Admittedly, Jacob's birth had something to do with that, but still.)

[Berzerker]

congrats Ming, all alone with 200+

[-Jrabbit]

Yep, well done, Ming. Nice start to the spring segment.

[Ming]

I wish I could have had one of those down the stretch of the Winter Season...

Bring on the Masters!

[-Jrabbit]

Wow, Tiger dropped two more shots overnight...

Woods' drop reviewed; assessed two-shot penalty

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Tiger Woods will play the weekend at the Masters, albeit two strokes further back than he thought he’d be when he walked off property late Friday afternoon.

Woods met with officials early Saturday at Augusta National regarding his drop on the 15th hole during the second round. After bouncing his third shot off the flag stick and into a lateral hazard fronting the green, Woods returned to the spot from where he’d originally played to hit his fifth shot.

At issue is how close Woods dropped to the original spot of play.

“I went down to the drop area, that wasn't going to be a good spot, because obviously it's into the grain, it's really grainy there. And it was a little bit wet,” Woods said. “I went 2 yards further back and I took, tried to take 2 yards off the shot of what I felt I hit.”

Under the Rules of Golf, a player must drop nearest to the spot of the original shot in that situation and the television replay of the drop shows Woods playing his fifth shot a few feet behind that location.

Woods will be assessed a two-stroke penalty, which means he made a triple bogey-8 on the 15th hole, dropping him to 1 under par and five strokes off the lead.

Woods is not being disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard under Rule 33-7, which states, “A penalty of disqualification may in exceptional individual cases be waived, modified or imposed if the committee considers such action warranted.”

According to a release from Augusta National, officials were made aware of the potential violation by a television viewer who called in and reviewed the video of the drop while Woods was playing the 18th hole.

“The committee determined he had compiled with the rules,” the statement said.

After Woods admitted to the violation in his post-round interview, however, officials reviewed the tape again. Because this was after he had signed his scorecard “the penalty of disqualification was waived.”

“The committee had previously reviewed the information and made its initial determination prior to the finish of the player’s round,” Augusta National said in a statement.

The decision immediately drew criticism from fans and longtime observers.

“Me personally, this is dreadful,” Nick Faldo said on Golf Channel. “I think Tiger would gain massive brownie points if he stood up and said, you know what boys, I broke the rule.”

Woods ran into a similar ruling snafu at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship when he took an incorrect drop from an area in the sand and was penalized two strokes to miss the cut.

Officials did not re-pair after the ruling, which means Woods will tee off at 1:45 p.m. (ET) with Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, who is 2 under.

[snoopy369]

Yeah, I don't totally understand what he did wrong, but boo They should just have an official with each threesome and let that official make any necessary rulings right there, and not second-guess the ruling afterward.

edit: Rereading that, it sounds like they didn't think that he'd done anything wrong, and then changed their minds. That's utterly silly. Make up your minds and don't even suggest penalizing someone for your own mistake, if it's actually wrong.